Alzahrani, Wejdan_Social Engineering by WEAL2898 WEAL2898 https://padlet.com/weal2898/1b9fawwy608y3ovy Made with wonder en-us 2021-03-15 03:52:24 UTC 2021-03-24 16:57:27 UTC hello@padlet.com What Social Engineering means? weal2898 https://padlet.com/weal2898/1b9fawwy608y3ovy/wish/1308872692 Social engineering is a kind of attack that exploits human emotions and vulnerabilities in order to collect sensitive information or gain unauthorized access to data, and it is just one step to achieve more 
cyber crimes. Unlike the other cyberattacks that compromise systems through security bugs within the organization, this attack takes advantage of the people working within that organization in order to do nefarious activities.  ]]> 2021-03-15 03:55:03 UTC https://padlet.com/weal2898/1b9fawwy608y3ovy/wish/1308872692 What are some of the most common ways social engineering affects cybersecurity?
 weal2898 https://padlet.com/weal2898/1b9fawwy608y3ovy/wish/1308874670 Simply senior, once the attackers gain the employe’s trust, they can gain access to the company based on the information they had from the employee which will help the, to access sensitive information. It could be happen through a call or through an email phishing. 

]]> 2021-03-15 03:56:13 UTC https://padlet.com/weal2898/1b9fawwy608y3ovy/wish/1308874670 What can we do to help prevent attackers from leveraging social engineering for their own benefit? weal2898 https://padlet.com/weal2898/1b9fawwy608y3ovy/wish/1308876793 Since this attack target humans more than systems, first step, each organization should be conduct a cyber security risk-aware culture for their employees. Also Security Awareness Training is something crucial that each company should take into consideration as they implement their security policies.]]> 2021-03-15 03:57:32 UTC https://padlet.com/weal2898/1b9fawwy608y3ovy/wish/1308876793 3 articles on instances of social engineering being used for a cyber attack
 weal2898 https://padlet.com/weal2898/1b9fawwy608y3ovy/wish/1308879081 1- https://www.imperva.com/learn/application-security/social-engineering-attack/
2- https://www.csoonline.com/article/2124681/what-is-social-engineering.html#:~:text=Once%20a%20social%20engineer%20has,assets%20or%20even%20harm%20people.
3-https://www.webroot.com/ie/en/resources/tips-articles/what-is-social-engineering


]]> 2021-03-15 03:58:57 UTC https://padlet.com/weal2898/1b9fawwy608y3ovy/wish/1308879081 3 videos  on instances of social engineering being used for a cyber attack
 weal2898 https://padlet.com/weal2898/1b9fawwy608y3ovy/wish/1308879939 1-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBaVek2oTtc
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQL8kaBReDQ
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvhkKwHjUVg


]]> 2021-03-15 03:59:28 UTC https://padlet.com/weal2898/1b9fawwy608y3ovy/wish/1308879939 How do cyber attackers leverage social engineering to go after a target? weal2898 https://padlet.com/weal2898/1b9fawwy608y3ovy/wish/1308894750 The phishing attack is the best example of how attackers leveraging social engineering techniques, with this kind of attack they will be able to access sensitive data and the entire network as well as compromising the organization’s system.]]> 2021-03-15 04:08:01 UTC https://padlet.com/weal2898/1b9fawwy608y3ovy/wish/1308894750